Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army's Ball. The Army, all out for merger, had kept the ball. All week, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the Army's best backs plunged down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...
General Electric's tough-minded,soft-spoken Nobelman, Dr. Irving Langmuir, said last week that Russia might win an atomic race if the world let itself...
...coalition had a tough fight ahead. Already Perón's sound trucks raced through the streets, extolling the Strong Man's achievements in "social justice." No sensible Argentine discounted the Strong Man's appeal nor failed to note the steady expansion of his political machine in the hinterland beyond Buenos Aires. Everywhere his police, mayors and governors could be counted on to work wonders, by intimidation or otherwise...
...week when Britain's Bevin and Churchill adopted tactics of extreme tough ness (see below), tough Molotov was rela tively relaxed. His whole speech testified to the U.S.S.R.'s awareness of its limitations...
Died. William W. Norton, 54, publisher (W. W. Norton & Co.) of popular books on tough, unpopular subjects (e.g., Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million'), chairman of the Council on Books in Wartime, which sponsored the widely read Armed Services Editions; of a rare blood disease; in Manhattan...